Editorial December 27, 1952 Issue

THE TRUE INHERITANCE

Richard J. Davis

As one awakens, through an understanding of Christian Science, to the reality of man's true and forever being as the reflection of his Father-Mother God, he also sees why it is imperative to deny the belief that he was ever born in matter or as the child of mortal parentage. This necessity is no doubt what Jesus implied in his talk with Nicodemus when he said (John 3:3, 6): "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. ... That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."

The denial of the beliefs of human parentage does not mean that anyone would be any less kind and loving toward his human parents; but it indicates that as Christian Scientists we have learned the true nature of man and are therefore endeavoring to live and think from that scientific standpoint.

Most important of all, through this understanding we have learned to demonstrate the utter fallacy of heredity and its cruel impositions on humanity. In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes (p. 178), "In proportion to our understanding of Christian Science, we are freed from the belief of heredity, of mind in matter or animal magnetism; and we disarm sin of its imaginary power in proportion to our spiritual understanding of the status of immortal being."

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